I could not always curb my moral indignation for the perpetrators of slaveholding villainy, long enough for a circumstantial statement of the facts which I felt almost everybody must know.
From his autobiography, explaining his struggle to maintain a factual narrative when his moral indignation against slavery was so strong.
Share
More from Frederick Douglass
Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.
I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.